| Gil Beamsley |
| Originally from Colorado Springs, Colorado, Mr. Beamsley, has lived in serveral parts of the open West. Now a Sycamore, Illinois resident, he has been painting rural DeKalb County since 1971. When he commuted into Chicago to work at Montgomery Wards he noticed how the rural landscape was changing dramatically with the decline of family farms and the growth of urban sprawl. He photographed the local rural countryside, and is still working from these images even though many of the farm buildings no longer exist, except in peoples' memories. His unique painting method with acrylic paints is applied onto canvas or paper in very thin layers exposing, at times, the gessoed surface beneath to achieve a certain atmospheric glow and realism in his subject matter, a breath of life of a farming community yielding the richest farmland in the world. These images are worth remembering, an important way of life not so very long ago. |
| Prairie View Farm |  | | 68 Views |
| | White Barn – University Road |  | | 61 Views |
| | Elva Road Silos Along Spur Line |  | | 58 Views |
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| Granary – Five Points Road |  | | 66 Views |
| | Farm – Woodlawn Road |  | | 61 Views |
| | Corn Crib with Corn – Central Illinois |  | | 57 Views |
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| Corn Crib – Rich Road |  | | 59 Views |
| | Corn Crib Route 23 (north of Base Line Road) |  | | 52 Views |
| | Mid-State |  | | 50 Views |
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| Woods and House |  | | 52 Views |
| | Oat Field, Kesslinger Road |  | | 53 Views |
| | Maples at Sunset Along Somonauk Road |  | | 52 Views |
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| Kishwaukee River Near Base Line Road |  | | 58 Views |
| | Along Peace Road |  | | 57 Views |
| | Fields Along Peace Road |  | | 50 Views |
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| Elva Road Silos Along Spur Line |  | | 52 Views |
| | West of Sycamore |  | | 45 Views |
| | Round Barn, Rt. 12 (between Cambridge and Madison, WI) |  | | 59 Views |
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